GOODHUE -- Huneke Dairy is turning waste into bedding. The 250-cow dairy located near Bellechester in southeast Minnesota is recycling its manure and turning it into bedding for the free-stall barn.

Cornell University has found new ways to make use of cow manure. The Teaching Dairy Barn at the College of Veterinary Medicine has installed a system that separates manure from sand bedding material, ...

ST. PAUL -- Sand bedding is very popular with many dairy producers - until it comes to handling sand-laden manure. Sand is very comfortable for cows to lie on in well designed and managed freestalls.

Let down by electric utilities, farmers bet on natural gas as a more promising way to make a return from cow manure. This story is the second in a three-part series. Read the first and third ...

For many years I have mulched my vegetable beds and garden borders with alternating layers of mature compost and washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, both compost and cow ...

For years now, I have been happily mulching my garden beds and borders with washed dairy manure. Light, fluffy and innocent of weed seeds, cow manure is a splendid tilth-builder for our lean ...

For years, Paul Danbom let good fertilizer go to waste. On his 900-head dairy farm in Turlock, California, he was buying fertilizer for his distant cornfields. Meanwhile, he was paying to dispose of ...

“We’re trying to show that organic dairy farming can be part of a solution to climate change.” Albert Straus, of Marin County, California, is a pioneering farmer in the sustainability movement. His ...

PIXLEY, Calif. — Lyle Schlyer grinned as a river of frothing manure oozed down a concrete channel, the murky greenish fluid soon disappearing into a storm drain-like hole. It was a sunny March ...